Var’ath sat lost in thought in the cockpit of Lost Fortune. The other members of the crew were fast asleep as the freighter was drawing nearer to Kluistar, hyperspace streaks zooming past it like arrows made of stars. But sleep had not come to Var’ath and so he had wandered...

Lit by countless stars, Naboo’s night sky was a shining tapestry of constellations and nebulae. On a grassy hillock squatted a portly Twi’lek wearing an ostentatious dressing gown, flanked by his two small children. His fingers were busy pointing at the various incandescent bodies, each one marking a step in...

Chilly darkness had fallen over the barren expanses of the Tatooine Dune Sea. Due to an unfortunate mishap their speeder bike had suffered, Kentas and Var’ath had been forced to take shelter in a small crag for the night. They were close enough to the nearest settlements that there was...

Var’ath regarded the greenly glistening planet stretching outside the cockpit of Lost Fortune. From the orbit the steaming jungles of Cholganna seemed peaceful enough, but his recent hands-on experience of the local fauna had already taught Var’ath better. Recollections of the searing grasp of the arboreal octopi and the razor-sharp...

Background

Only one to escape a slaver raid that robbed him of his family, Var’ath grew up on the seedier side of the galaxy, engaged in various larcenous pursuits from an early age. Little by little his predilections gravitated toward unauthorised acquisition of assets, a trade for which he showed considerable natural aptitude. He was further mentored in the pilferous arts by a Sullustan named Nool Toramb, who later ended up antagonising the Black Sun with fatal consequences. Afraid that he might share the fate of the venturesome near-human, Var’ath hastily departed his environs and set out to roam across the Corporate Sector in the hopes of reconnecting with his long-lost relatives. With the help of little monetary compensation disbursed to a Trandoshan bounty hunter, he has so far been able to learn the whereabouts of his sister An’ath, who is currently held by Gorat Ulay, a Neimoidian merchant baron notorious for his penchant to arbitrary acts of cruelty. Fearing for An’ath’s safety and well-being, Var’ath is determined to arrange her release from the clutches of the depraved profiteer by any means expedient.